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Psychiatrist

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist renowned for her contributions to hospice care and death studies. Her book 'On Death and Dying' had a profound impact on global hospice care practices.

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Famous Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

“Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.”

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Book:Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

Source: Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

“Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.”

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Book:Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

Source: Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles...only by a spiritual journey...by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home. The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of my AIDS patients discovered that the last year of their lives was by far their best. Many have said they wouldn't have traded the rich quality of that last year of life for a healthier body. Sadly, it is only when tragedy strikes that most of us begin attending to the deeper aspects of life. It is only then that we attempt to go beyond surface concerns-what we look like, how much money we make, and so forth-to discover what's really important.”

“The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

About the Author

Born: July 8, 1926
Died: August 24, 2004
Known for: Psychiatrist
Quotes: 126

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Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And LivingRelated source material

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